What's the difference between emulsion and immiscible?

Emulsion


Definition:

  • (n.) Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This paper has considered the effects and potential application of PFCs, their emulsions and emulsion components for regulating growth and metabolic functions of microbial, animal and plant cells in culture.
  • (2) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (3) After the incubation during 6 hours of Emulsions 1 and 2 with plasma the 36% and 50% decrease of the cholesterol content in plasma was found.
  • (4) Measurable quantities of temefos were found in the snails within 1 day after the first treatment with a 2% granular formulation but 3 weeks elapsed before uptake occurred following treatment with a temefos emulsion.
  • (5) Pediatric) (280 micrograms retinol; 160 IU vitamin D; 2.8 mg tocopherol; 0.68 mg riboflavin) in a lipid emulsion, Intralipid.
  • (6) A fat emulsion when injected into tissue is scarcely taken up by the blood vascular system but is retained within the tissue over a relatively extended period, and is distributed slowly into the surrounding tissues and to the regional lymph nodes.
  • (7) The effects of injecting either a novel perfluorodecalin (FDC)-based emulsion or various perfluorochemical (PFC) oils on liver cytochromes P-450 (P-450) and aryl esterase (LAE) enzymes in male rats have been studied.
  • (8) The mean plasma antibody titre to SRBC was significantly increased in some groups of animals injected with F-DA both before or after immunization; maximum titres were observed following injection of emulsion simultaneously with SRBC.
  • (9) For comparison, the same characteristics of currently used 20% water-soap benzylbenzoate emulsion and of the new ointment base, SAKAP (acryl copolymer), have been examined.
  • (10) Clinical efficacy of a new preparation of peplomycin emulsion in hydroxypropylcellulosum (HPC-PEP) was studied in 26 patients to compared with that in 14 patients administered with 60 mg of PEP in 20 ml saline (S-PEP).
  • (11) with nonviable Mycobacterium tuberculosis Jamaica cells associated with oil-droplet emulsions (WCV) were highly resistant to the i.v.
  • (12) The induction of a T cell proliferative response to a peptide antigen could be inhibited by co-administration of core-extended peptide with antigen in the same adjuvant emulsion.
  • (13) Microspheres of 14C-labeled highly cross-linked polyacrylamide (mean diameter 0.25-0.30 micron) have been prepared by emulsion polymerization.
  • (14) The immunogens were administered in water-in-oil emulsions containing pertussis vaccine as adjuvant.
  • (15) Infants receiving total parenteral nutrition including intravenous lipid emulsion excrete more than 100 pmol of pentane per kilogram body weight per minute.
  • (16) The soybean oil emulsion Intralipid was given intravenously to 12 healthy subjects for 2 hr.
  • (17) If the concentration of alcohol in decane is increased the amount of protein adsorbed on the emulsion is decreased.
  • (18) The formula of a new stable 20% benzylbenzoate emulsion is presented, so are the results of studies on its toxicity, local irritating and sensitizing effects in guinea pigs.
  • (19) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
  • (20) The emulsion stability were analyzed by visual inspection, Coulter-Counter and optic microscopy.

Immiscible


Definition:

  • (a.) Not capable of being mixed or mingled.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mixtures of stearic (SA) and arachic acids (AA) with DMPC and DSPC show phase diagrams of the peritectic type, with a region of solid phase immiscibility from 0 to 28.5 mol% of fatty acid.
  • (2) Ethyl cellulose was dissolved in a water immiscible, volatile organic solvent, containing sulphadiazine as a model drug.
  • (3) Below 45 mN m-1 and in the absence of Ca2+ no indications of phase immiscibility were observed.
  • (4) In a condensed host lipid, the probe is partially immiscible, and segregates to form a heterogeneous film from which it is readily collapsed.
  • (5) Washing bacteria by centrifugation through a water-immiscible layer of silicones.
  • (6) The acid--immiscible with lecithin--forms well defined pure acid domains in the monolayer.
  • (7) However, the equilibrium surface film contains only the 2:1 complex and, therefore, 2:1 complex is also immiscible with cholesterol in surface films.
  • (8) Hexabrix and tolazoline exhibited transient immiscibility.
  • (9) Simultaneous measurements of the pressure in terminal lymphatics and interstitial tissue have been made in the exteriorized cat mesentery superfused with either physiological salt solution (Krebs solution) or a water-immiscible fluorocarbon, FC-80.
  • (10) The properties of perfluorocarbon liquid--clear, water immiscible, specific gravity twice that of water--make it an important adjunct to treatment of complex retinal detachments.
  • (11) Mixtures of POPC with DPPC or with DSPC exhibit gel phase immiscibility over the composition range 0-75% DPPC (or DSPC).
  • (12) Distribution of cephalotin, 2-tienylacetic acid, phenacetyl-D-(--)-alpha-aminophenylacetic acid, weak acids and D-(--)-alpha-amino-phenylacetic acid methyl ether, a weak base in two-phase systems containing two immiscible liquid phases was studied.
  • (13) Our DSC results indicate that the width of the phase transition observed at high peptide concentration is inversely but discontinuously related to hydrocarbon chain length and that gel phase immiscibility occurs when the hydrophobic thickness of the bilayer greatly exceeds the hydrophobic length of the peptide.
  • (14) Saturated and unsaturated phosphatidylcholine (PC)-cholesterol membranes have been studied, with a special attention paid to fluid-phase immiscibility in cis-unsaturated phosphatidylcholine (PC)-cholesterol membranes as previously proposed and to the three-dimensional structure of the membrane.
  • (15) When a small amount of human blood was injected, it flowed immiscibly to the lowest level, displaced the bile, and formed a clot of pure blood.
  • (16) Complete destruction of undiluted DMS or DMS in solvents miscible with water (methanol, ethanol, DMSO, DMF, acetone) or solvents partially miscible or immiscible with water (toluene, p-xylene, benzene, 1-pentanol, ethyl acetate, chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, acetonitrile) could be obtained using any of the above methods.
  • (17) Below 20 mol % cholesterol the DPPC mixtures give heat-capacity curves each of which can be resolved into a narrow and a broad peak, suggesting the coexistence of two immiscible solid phases; above 20 mol % only the broad peak is observed and this disappears at about 50 mol %.
  • (18) It operates with commonly used HPLC eluents and immiscible organic solvents as long as the two phases remain immiscible.
  • (19) In vesicles composed of two lipids which are partially immiscible in the gel state, a size increase was observed at temperatures which mainly overlapped the range of temperatures of the lipid phase transition.
  • (20) Some anionic sulphate and sulphonate detergents were also unsatisfactory being immiscible with Kober reagent.

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